Thank you so much to everyone who entered, you entries were great. We could only pick one winner. Here is the entry that won:

Tammy says:

November 17th, 2009at 1:15 pm(#)   edit

To me, Precious represents; pain, passion, victory, defeat, anger, love, hate, and all the above. The emotions she exudes are the same ones we tend to steer away from in others because in facing theirs, we’re usually forced to face our own. And for a lot of us, that can be a very painful task. Precious is the journey of surviving trials and tribulations and finding the strength to make peace with emotional and physical scars. She represents the truth. And while the truth doesn’t always feel good at first, accepting it is necessary in order for it to become the key to mental freedom. Precious is a reminder to us that life is not to be taken for granted. The things we think we’re entitled to such as stability, love, and support, are not always guaranteed. In life, the people we love will hurt us. The ones we depend on will leave us. And the ones we trust will abuse us. But that doesn’t mean we’re to give up. It just means our desire to live has to cancel out our desire to die. Precious is a perfect example of the beauty and power of the human spirit and how we, not our circumstances, are the masters of our own ships and define our own destinies.